Dealing a serious blow to congressional supporters of statistical sampling, a panel of Census Bureau experts Thursday recommended against using the controversial method for producing redistricting ...

The U.S. Constitution calls for the government to count the population every 10 years so that congressional seats can be allocated among the states. That, unfortunately, is easier said than done. The ...

While Republicans and Democrats in Congress continue high-stakes maneuvering over the 2000 census, Arizona has sent Washington a defiant message on what kind of numbers will — and will not — be ...

A day after a federal court declared illegal the Clinton administration’s planned use of a controversial counting method for the Year 2000 Census, officials on Tuesday angered opponents by continuing ...

As Texas Gov. George W. Bush continues his presidential campaign’s outreach to minority voters this week, leaders of some civil rights organizations are becoming more critical of his cautious views ...

Censuses are rare. The only estimates that we have generally come from sample surveys. Rare though a census may be, let us assume for a moment that we do a census of all pupils in classes 10, 11 and ...

Governors of Florida and other high-growth states with large mobile and minority populations should unite with the U.S. Census Bureau to appeal an extremely harmful ruling to the Supreme Court. Unless ...

Prominent New York Democrats called on President-elect George W. Bush’s nominee for commerce secretary yesterday to use scientific sampling in the new census to correct what they predict will be a ...